Never knowingly undersolved
A well-clued and straightforward puzzle from Hectence today, with only a couple of clues falling into the more difficult category. dd double definition cd cryptic definition (xxxx)* anagram anagrind = anagram indicator Across … Read more >>
I found this trickier than usual for Rufus, but with lots of nice clues – I particularly liked 14a, 4d and 5d. I suspect I’m missing something in 22a… Across 7. OUT OF … Read more >>
Of the last two weeks’ Beelzebub puzzles, I think I got lucky, having struggled to get anywhere with 1,102, and having raced through this one unaided. *=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, cd=cryptic definition, dd=double … Read more >>
My first non-Quixote Independent on Sunday blog, and this week it’s Hypnos. This – perhaps appropriately – seemed a shade easier than I recall previous Hypnos puzzles being. I had to rely on … Read more >>
Nick: Nice AZED this week, which I rate 7/10 on the ‘AZED hardness’ scale. Some novel cluing going on, e.g. 12ac and 23dn. My last in was 20ac, which took me a while to … Read more >>
Lorraine Morning peeps, I must say I thoroughly enjoyed this puzzle, up and running the moment I looked at it. A couple of hard anagrams, 16ac and 7dn – but a very strange … Read more >>
I’m not sure but I think this is his first grid in the Saturday Prize slot. I certainly found it tougher than usual for a Morph, (only 4 answers entered on first pass … Read more >>
If I wanted to give a title to this puzzle, I think I’d simply borrow one of Shakespeare’s. 🙂 Not so long ago, Bonxie gave us a puzzle where every across clue and … Read more >>
That title, a grid with a big ‘X’ in the middle, and a preamble indicating that there were eight clashing cells, extra letters in word play would lead to instructions, and a ‘route’ to be … Read more >>
At the easier end of Sleuth’s spectrum with 5d, the longest word of the puzzle, falling quickly and supplying helpful letters down the center of the grid. I worked my way from the … Read more >>
A fairly typical Gordius, with some reasonable clues, including some that revealed their secrets very easily, and also quite a few that I have quibbles about. I can’t fully explain 13ac and 26ac, … Read more >>
Great stuff as ever from our resident Friday setter. Elegant surfaces, excellent wordplay, no quibbles. All good. It may be coincidence, but is that a setter’s name Nina that I see in the … Read more >>
Prize Puzzle from the Monday April 4 FT If you like cryptic definitions, there are some sterling examples here. I particularly liked 14 down; 27 across and 11 across were also pleasing. Across … Read more >>
Strange things are afoot at the Circle K. First, no puzzle available last night at the FT website and then no copies of the paper itself at my station this morning. Online matters … Read more >>
I note the number of times in this post that I have added a note on the definition, more often because of obliqueness than obscurity. … I am fortunate to draw another very … Read more >>